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Email (IMAP/SMTP) for VS Code

io.github.boutquin/email

Multi-account IMAP/SMTP email server with 22 tools for reading, sending, searching, and organizing.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Email (IMAP/SMTP) in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "email-config-file",
      "description": "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "email-accounts",
      "description": "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "email": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE": "${input:email-config-file}",
        "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS": "${input:email-accounts}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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